New York City will drop requirements for people to wear masks in schools and for patrons of restaurants and other businesses to show proof of vaccination, changes that coincide with a continuing drop in Covid-19 cases, Mayor Eric Adams said Friday. Starting on Monday, students and staff in K-12 public schools will no longer be required to wear masks indoors, … Continued
Some 350 homeless individuals were recently found living in encampments in subway stations and tunnels, transit officials said Thursday. The individuals were spread between 29 encampments in tunnels and 89 in stations, according to an MTA survey conducted on Feb. 2 and 3 as part of a “track trespass” task force formed in December to address an … Continued
U.S. stocks plummeted and oil prices jumped Thursday as Russia invaded Ukraine, causing unease in the global economy. The Dow Jones was down 831 points, or 2.5%, in early trading while S&P 500 dropped 2.1%, and Nasdaq 100 was down 1.8%. The Brent Crude oil index, a global benchmark, reached $105 per barrel by early … Continued
More than 1,000 of the employees had already been placed on leave for missing earlier vaccine deadlines. New York City recently fired nearly 1,500 municipal workers who failed to comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, officials said Monday. City officials said 1,430 workers were fired Friday and that the number represents less than 1% of … Continued
Two men who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are suing the city and state of New York for unconstitutional racial discrimination for directing medical providers to consider race in distributing lifesaving treatments. The lawsuit comes after former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson ridiculed the city’s directive as an example of critical race theory in action. … Continued
The Rev. Al Sharpton, the longtime civil rights activist, is calling on newly elected New York Mayor Eric Adams to address the city’s spike in crime, calling it ”out of control,” according to Politico. ”In fairness to Eric, he’s only been mayor five weeks,” Sharpton told MSNBC’s ”Morning Joe” on Tuesday. ”But even as a fan … Continued
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul late Thursday signed a new congressional map into law that could eliminate half of the state’s Republicans in the House. The signing, reported by the Associated Press, comes just days after the state legislature advanced the map on near party lines. The map gives Democrats an advantage in 22 of the … Continued
The Trump family have accused New York Attorney General Letitia James of breaking state laws for a politically motivated ‘fishing expedition’, in a fiery court filing Tuesday. The legal filing, lodged by Donald Trump‘s lawyers in New York, claims James was hell-bent on prosecuting the Trumps even before she got into office or saw any evidence … Continued
The news that The New York Times will by the hot online word game Wordle from creator Josh Wardle for a price in the “low seven figures” has sparked fears the deal will kill the low-tech, open-to-all features that helped make the game a Web sensation. Mr. Wardle, an engineer for Reddit who lives in Brooklyn, originally created … Continued
All life is worthy of dignity and respect.” Inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Sisters of Life and Cardinal Timothy Dolan prayed for the protection of all human life. It was the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s grave Roe v. Wade decision, which ushered in a regime of “unfettered access to abortion,” as Cardinal Dolan noted. He talked about his … Continued
The enraged mother of a student attending a Nassau County, New York, high school shouted down administrators on Tuesday after discovering her daughter had been held in the school library all day because she refused to wear a mask, a trending video on social media showed. “Nobody locks my kid in a g*****n library!” the … Continued
Parents of schoolchildren in New York state have filed a challenge with the Supreme Court contesting the state’s 2019 repeal of a law that exempted those with sincere religious objections from having to accept the vaccinations that children are normally required to receive in order to attend school. The petition comes as courts across the country, including … Continued
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